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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Unboxing and Hands-On
Apr 6, 2020
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so here we are April 6 the day is
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finally here and in the house we have
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the samsung galaxy Chromebook that was
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announced all the way back in January of
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2020 at CES so like the first week of
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January we have a lot of video of this
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device we got to spend quite a bit of
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time with it out there in the desert at
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Las Vegas but the time is now here to
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actually see it in the box get it out of
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the box see what's included in the box
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and begin that review process so without
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any further ado you're seeing this right
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at the same time that I am as far as the
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boxing goes so I can tell you one thing
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that's really cool just like with the
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Asus flipsie 436 it's neat to see a
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unique box it's all white there's
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nothing else going on so I feel like
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there's a trend here with these top two
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your Chromebooks your basic stuff down
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here on the edge but just this white box
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Samsung and then Chromebook up at the
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top which is really cool I'll read off
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the stuff that's on here real quick so
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yeah I 510 210 you processor 13.3 4k
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display at gigs ram to 256 gigs of SSD
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and via me storage Fiesta red so all the
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stuff you'd expect and yes Owen got the
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Fiesta red version of this it seems like
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a few outlets got their review devices
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at some point in the last week or so we
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were not lucky enough to be one of those
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but I made some calls and make sure and
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got to a Best Buy and congrats to them
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by the way on delivering a really good
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curbside pickup service they did an
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excellent job with getting this to me
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with zero contact whatsoever so that was
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really cool hats off to them
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and there it is
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we'll put it aside for just a second oh
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just as thin and awesome feeling even in
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this little thing I'm so excited
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looks like probably just paperwork hmm
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yeah yeah just basic papers it's an
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interesting little contraption the hole
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does in again I'm always for boxing for
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Chromebooks that's not just the standard
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you know cardboard box with nothing else
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in it so let's see what else this
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charging block is kind of unique looking
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curved at the top and bottom I've not
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seen one like this it looks like there's
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an LED indicator they're always welcome
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because that way you can glance down
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when it's plugged in and know that it's
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getting some battery but other than that
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it's a USB type-c brick what kind of
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power we got here 20 volt here it is so
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you know not the most powerful charger
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we've ever seen it looks like this is a
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little grabber for the nubs that will be
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in the stylus so nothing out of the
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ordinary here other than that it's like
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a solid box which is again I love seeing
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unique boxes but you're not here to see
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the Box you can see this thing and again
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we're not going to cover anything in
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this video that we haven't talked about
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before because ultimately this is the
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same Chromebook we saw in January but we
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actually have it in the flesh now and
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there it is in the case you've forgotten
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how pretty that red is I'm just going to
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kind of move it around and hope the
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light catches all those fun colors
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because ultimately the red version of
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this thing is one of the most
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eye-catching devices I've seen in a long
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time
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as thin as I remember and me and just
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rigid gosh this thing feels great and
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again the ones that we messed with in in
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Las Vegas
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we're always tethered they had a thing
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on them and there's stuff around and
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sometimes it's just hard in those
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scenarios to get a feel for a device at
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man
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if you've held a pixel book the original
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pixel book you get a good idea but
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imagine
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taking that and almost like shrinking it
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down a little bit more or finding it
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more cash this feels good so let's see
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it's got some things on the feet to take
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those off so yeah in case you get this
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thing out of the box and I'm not going
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to do that right now they're full
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stickers on the the rubber parts of the
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feet so I have to remove those so that
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it'll sit still on the table but I'm
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gonna leave those for now
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one finger open obviously and this
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thing's not gonna power on just like any
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other Chromebook you got to plug it in
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for a second so we'll cut it wait here
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in just a second to power it on but
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right down on the keyboard deck they've
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got a nice little sticker here
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interesting a google play sticker so
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fingerprint unlock built-in pin super
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thin super light design and 4k AMOLED
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core i5 that didn't put the big project
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Athena sticker on there which is
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interesting that was all over all of
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them in Las Vegas so maybe they've
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elected to to not put that on everything
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and that was just for the purposes of
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that show but again you can just see how
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thin and light this thing is I mean it
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is just pretty and again that one finger
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lift it's just beautiful I mean just as
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impressed as I was honestly in Vegas and
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keyboard feels really great too nice and
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quiet and the trackpad not surprisingly
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glass buttery smooth very good click it
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feels like ton like the pixel book gun
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which I'm a big fan of it's trackpad
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so yeah let's what cut away real quick
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get this thing plugged in and boot it up
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at least and get our eyes on the screen
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for just a second before we wrap this
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thing up okay so we've got this thing
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plugged in and we've got signed in and
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that kind of stuff so the basic setup
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things and I wanted to just show you
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this since I went ahead and peel those
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little silly stickers off the feet that
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one finger lift is perfectly intact
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fingerprint scanner super fast and we
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are in and going and right off the bat
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one thing I noticed with this thing that
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I just wasn't looking for when we were
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messing with it in Vegas is just the
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frame rate of the display a lot of
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Chromebooks have really good colors and
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viewing angles which this one obviously
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but it's also got insane frame rates and
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it's not possible to catch this on
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camera probably but as you move
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something around on the screen instead
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of like seeing ghosting and stuff
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jumping around like it is so fluid
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looking and I think stuff like that is
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what's going to end up making this
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Chromebook feel more premium than things
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that have come before it and this is
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gonna completely blow the shot out but
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right now we're at about I don't know a
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little over 50% but if we crank this
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thing up I mean it is usually under
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these lights and here even bright
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displays look you know just kind of
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average so those look okay that thing
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looks searingly bright we have not
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measured it yet but I guarantee it'll be
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on the level of you know the pixel book
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and stuff like that where it was at
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least 400 nits if not higher so one
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other thing we've seen on the new
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landing page they put out for this is
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that it is 100% RGB Adobe RGB and 100%
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DCI p3 rated so interestingly they they
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put that on their landing page you know
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for things like video editing I'm not
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sure what you're gonna use to edit
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videos on a Chromebook at this point but
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it would be really cool if they already
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worked with Adobe and Adobe Premiere
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rush finally comes out alongside this
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thing and we can actually see what it's
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like to edit videos really on a
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Chromebook but we'll just have to wait
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and see on that a couple other notable
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features here we also have the stowed
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stylus on the side which is also red and
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also I'm looking like the rest of this
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thing it works just like any other
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stylus would on a Chromebook so you know
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Johnny down notes drawing 4000 levels of
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pressure you know edge detection all
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that kind of stuff but the best part is
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it's stowable and I can put it here and
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not lose it it's got a place to go it's
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got a place to stay if you've been
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around here for any length of time you
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know that to me for me this is more
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important than a nice big pin to write
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with because ultimately a lot of us
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don't use the stylus on a regular basis
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but having it there when I need it it's
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more important than its physical size
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additionally again keyboard deck feels
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really great just going through the
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setup process I had to obviously use it
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a little bit more there for a few
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minutes very very impressed all this
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will have to wait on the review for full
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you know opinions on these things but I
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can tell you again using it after not
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having touched it for a few months
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feels great holding it along one corner
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just like this you don't have any flex
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in the chassis the thing feels rigid and
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sturdy which is really awesome the
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hinges feel great folds into tablet mode
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obviously very easily and again I don't
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know that many people are going to use
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this thing as a tablet in this way but
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it's light enough to be used as a tablet
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if you want to and for flipping it
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around and watching a movie or taking a
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quick note and being real flip it right
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back into clamshell mode that's a pretty
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cool thing so the last thing I want to
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check that we could not check why we
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were in Vegas is the speakers there's
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nothing like particularly going on here
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they're not branded anything they don't
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have any special grilles I mean there's
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some pretty cool side it's firing
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grilles here and yeah there's nothing on
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the bottom so no idea actually what the
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speakers are gonna sound like on this so
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so gonna back this up to the beginning
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and try to just hear our intro track
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here at your office while you're stuck
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at home
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no these are not speakers you're gonna
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go out and buy a Chromebook for but they
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are better than the original pixel book
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but I can already tell you if they're
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nowhere near as good as the pixel book
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oh or the pixel slate which is a little
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unfortunate but in a device this thin
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and this light I was not expecting some
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amazing sound quality but kudos to
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Samsung here for not partnering with
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someone and labeling it and trying to
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make it act like it has amazing speakers
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on it they they just they sound okay and
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they'll get you by if you need to listen
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to some audio or some video chats or
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something like that but I'm gonna wrap
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it up at that and just tell you
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initially hands-on again with this
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device a few months removed from Las
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Vegas I can tell you that this thing
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feels every bit as premium as I remember
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it sometimes we go to these shows and
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we're surprised by release and it's it's
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easy to kind of get swept up in all of
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it and just be like yeah this thing is
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amazing and it's great and then you you
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look back a few months later and wonder
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what was it that great or was I just
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kind of like hiked up or was it the
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surroundings it kind of feels like this
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one's that great there have been some
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early reports of some battery issues and
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some some overheating stuff so obviously
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we're gonna keep an eye on that I'm
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gonna be working on this thing
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specifically from my lap a lot instead
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of just you know docked on my desk so
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we've got to think through all those
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things we got to test all those things
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and you know we need that time to be
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able to do the review but hopefully in
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the in the next couple weeks as we're
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formulating this review and formulating
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full opinions on this device will leak
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out a little bit of information so check
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out the website if you don't already on
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a regular basis I'll be sharing some
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initial thoughts and some initial things
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as I'm kind of preparing for the review
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but that's gonna be it for this one guys
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